Cannot find firedrake in the docker

[cwangaw]

Hi,

I tried to use Apptainer in my university's HPC to install Firedrake. However, I cannot find Firedrake anywhere after the installation. My /home directory only contains a ubuntu subdirectory. Is it because of the line WARNING: 'nodev' mount option set on /tmp, it could be a source of failure during build process? It would be great if someone can help with this.

Thanks in advance!

wan01937@acn02 [/tmp] % apptainer build --sandbox firedrake docker://firedrakeproject/firedrake:latest
WARNING: 'nodev' mount option set on /tmp, it could be a source of failure during build process
INFO:    Starting build...
INFO:    Fetching OCI image...
14.3MiB / 14.3MiB [==================================================] 100 % 0.0 b/s 0s
305.4MiB / 305.4MiB [================================================] 100 % 0.0 b/s 0s
802.0MiB / 802.0MiB [================================================] 100 % 0.0 b/s 0s
387.7MiB / 387.7MiB [================================================] 100 % 0.0 b/s 0s
59.6MiB / 59.6MiB [==================================================] 100 % 0.0 b/s 0s
28.3MiB / 28.3MiB [==================================================] 100 % 0.0 b/s 0s
538.1MiB / 538.1MiB [================================================] 100 % 0.0 b/s 0s
169.7MiB / 169.7MiB [================================================] 100 % 0.0 b/s 0s
INFO:    Extracting OCI image...
INFO:    Inserting Apptainer configuration...
INFO:    Creating sandbox directory...
INFO:    Build complete: firedrake

[connorjward]

In the Docker containers Firedrake is installed to /opt/firedrake so I would suggest looking there.

[cwangaw]

Thanks! But I still cannot find /bin or activate there. Is the installation successful?

[connorjward]

There is no longer a firedrake venv. Firedrake is just installed into the container. That is, you can just run

python3 -c "from firedrake import *"

and it will work. No need to activate a venv.